Chapter 4: God ignorance
The sound of metal scratching the ground resonated in a small forest. It moved forward and grunted: "Cursed...Those...Chosen...Children. How?" It was Mugendramon, or what remained of him; only his torso, his right arm and a part of his head where his black empty eyes remained. His cannon were destroyed and couldn't do anything else. "I am...more powerful than...Wargreymon. My...body is...stronger than...anything. H-How c-could I...lose...In o-one hit?" Mugendramon asked. He felt his power dropping in his body as his existence came to an end.
In his mind, that moment passed in circle again and again. His defeat flashed in his mind repeatedly. After Wargreymon slashed his body, he turned back into Koromon, weak and vulnerable.
{Now you're finished.} Mugendramon said.
{I don't think so! I have Taichi, Hikari...and everyone else on my side!} Koromon replied.
Mugendramon couldn't feel pain on his body, but his inner system suddenly screamed alert just before he started falling apart.
Mugendramon forced the flashback to end his spiral. He felt his processor starting to glitch. His sensors suddenly detected data starting to disappear in the air: "Another digimon...is...dying," he concluded.
Mugendramon crawled slowly at the location and found out a Chimairamon agonising. The Chimairamon was in his own poll of blood and lost almost all of his arms except one, his legs were too damage for any use and a large hole was on his chest. His eyes were closed from the pain. The Chimairamon was going to die no matter what.
Mugendramon saw his chance to survive. If he managed to obtain his data and the remaining of his life, he could survive and obtained his revenge against the chosen children. He crawled at Chimairamon direction.
Chimairamon instinct warned him of danger and he opened his eye. He saw Mugendramon coming at him. He knew what the other digimon had in mind. Chimairamon coughed blood out of his mouth and had the same idea. He didn't want to die. "I...I will...Find h-h...im," Chimairamon said weakly. He used his arm to crawl at Mugendramon.
When they were close, they both tried to absorb the other digimon data. They grabbed their arm and could drain the other's life. Eventually, they both realised they were equal strength. They looked at each other's eyes and saw that each others were artificial digimon; one of metal and the other of flesh. There was only one way to survive. They knew they had similar origin. In the end, a simple nod was enough for them and reached an agreement.
Their body shined and used each other's data and strength to fuse together. The data covered itself as a giant black egg while their data reformatted and adapted for his form and purpose. They entered in a dormant phase, become they become he.
It took a while before egg cracked as the new being awoken. As the egg broke under the strength of the new digimon; a god was born. His name was Millenniumon. A god who control time and shall brought darkness to the digital world. He screamed and the digital world trembled under his voice. His scream was his wrath, rage and hatred. His core called the chosen children to their doom. Millenniumon failed to notice that deep in his core, he was calling for his partner. Millenniumon very being was covered with pure dark emotions, too pure to notice something he wanted.
Millenniumon opened his eyes and grunted annoyed.
"I dreamt of my divine birth again," Millenniumon commented. He thought about the dream and said: "Mugendramon, an artificial metallic being and Chimairamon, an artificial fresh being. None of them were real living being and end up becoming a god...A real god made of artificial part," Millenniumon looked at his hand and turned it into a fist: "Ryo, you are a little like me. You have an artificial partner. The Ryo of this reality won't live like you and me...He will have me, his real partner; me. If only I found everything to maximize my chances."
He looked in front of him. There was a giant blue cylinder called the Recorder. It contained so much data that Millenniumon felt asleep while searching on it. He grunted at it in frustration and said: "So many data and information's...But nothing about those keys! I cannot afford to have one unknown factor!"
Millenniumon wanted to destroy the Recorder, but he controlled himself. It was stupid to destroy something useful; it wasn't expandable like digimons under his command.
"At least I found a few useful things," Millenniumon said.
What he found in the Recorder was something important for his plan. What he found was that the chosen children did the same thing than in his reality. The two realities were identical until one event that affected the rest.
When this Mugendramon was agonizing, he had a few glitches and damage in his processor that affected his sanity. That was different from Millenniumon part made of Mugendramon. The other thing was that the Chimairamon of this reality was weaker than Millenniumon own reality.
"Mugendramon dominated over Chimairamon. This Millenniumon was a Mugendramon who lost a part of his sanity and Chimairamon will was too weak to balance anything," Millenniumon concluded.
He was still perplexed that what differenced him and the now dead Millenniumon was the moment they fused.
Millenniumon smiled. He was glad not to be insane. As his partner in his original reality would probably say; he was mad with power. Millenniumon shook his head and grunted: "Forget about this Ryo. He chose Monodramon over me. I have to focus on the Ryo of this reality. He will have me as his partner. He won't have something artificial."
Millenniumon thought about the beginning of his dream, when Koromon gave his little speech. He chuckled over this before saying: "I thought at first that it was something stupid and...Just something the light would make up to look stronger. In the end, you are right...A little. I will have what you have when you defeat me. I will have Ryo by my side, giving me strength and I'll be invisible."
Millenniumon continued searching in the Recorder, but he eventually found nothing about those keys. The joy he gave himself dropped fast and his frustration came back. His search obviously became pointless and nothing else would appear.
"Billions and billions of data about this world, but nothing about those keys! It surely must be an ultimate weapon kind of this to defeat me! I cannot let Ryo have it," Millenniumon decided.
He walked outside of the record room to his throne. He thought about the throne and wondered why he never had one in his reality. Must be because I wasn't the type to sat down and think back then. It was only at my second temple I had a throne. The part of that that was Mugendramon never sat on anything.
He reached his throne and nodded at it. Despite the Millenniumon of this reality to be insane, he had taste for a perfect throne. The throne was sculpted on black stone made of onyx. The form of the throne was the classic one, but the seat had the map of the digital world. Millenniumon smirked at the thought of siting on his kingdom, but it would be true soon. The back part had symbol of time sculpted on it and the last one surprised him. On the armrest there was a tag with a crest on it. Millenniumon looked at it and saw it was the crest of Darkness. He wasn't sure why it was here or it was a real crest or something insane coming from the Millenniumon of this reality.
He would know only when Ryo become his partner. He thought a little more about it before saying: "I don't think it's a real crest...It's too obvious to be the real one and doesn't have anything to do with Ryo at all. His heart is one of light. Anyway, I have something to focus than design."
Millenniumon snapped his fingers and Devidramon came in the throne room. The dark dragon bowed to his master.
"What is it my lord?"
"I want to know where are the other keys Ryo might collect. It is dangerous that he obtained them all," Millenniumon said.
Devidramon chuckled nervously. He looked down and took one step backward: "Well...They are still in every chosen children hand except your personal trophy Taichi. If Ryo freed the other chosen children, he will have them all."
Millenniumon eyes blacken as he glared at Devidramon. He slowly stood up and walked closer to Devidramon. The dark dragon was sure he would be tore apart from his lord in any second.
"Go now!" Millenniumon shouted right at his face.
Devidramon didn't need to be asked twice and disappeared in a few seconds from the room.
Millenniumon was alone and let out a primal scream of rage until his lungs were empty. He breathed loudly: "How can he be so stupid?!" Millenniumon then spoke in his mind, not wanting anyone to overhear the rest. The Millenniumon of this reality let Ryo the opportunity to find something to destroy himself. Which this Millenniumon is now me? I would never let something as stupid as that happened. Millenniumon had a flashback when he let Ryo saving the chosen children. Millenniumon sighted, remembering his own stupidity. I did the same thing. I guess I was so powerful that I didn't care and didn't believe they could stand in my way. I defeated all of them and I was certain that even free...They wouldn't threaten me. I was so wrong.
Millenniumon calmed down and wondered if he should order his soldier to recover the key or let Ryo a chance to defeat him. He thought about it and came to a decision. He was surprised he changed his mind, but it was for Ryo. It will be best if he obtained it. If I have to gamble my life so Ryo become my partner so be it. If I overpower him and his partner, Ryo have more chance to refuse that we are destined partner.
Millenniumon used his power to seal the throne room before he tore space and watched Ryo progression. Ryo was currently watching a battle between Agumon against a few Gazimon, servants of Etemon.
Ryo shouted something at Agumon and the orange dinosaur nodded. Agumon let himself surrounded by the Gazimon. They attacked Agumon at the same time and Ryo shouted something. Agumon jumped just before the Gazimon got him and they smashed against each other's. Agumon threw a baby flame against one of them and that Gazimon turned into data. Ryo raised his digivice and the data was downloaded in it without harming the core of the fallen Gazimon.
Millenniumon smiled as he crossed his legs and watched the battle as if he was watching a television show. He didn't have pop-corn, but didn't mind. He watched proudly his partner changing the odds of the battle by watching the enemies' movement as Agumon took care of the fight. Millenniumon felt as if Ryo gave Agumon the ability to see behind him. Millenniumon grunted as jealousy awoke in him. He wanted Agumon dead, but if it was the case, Ryo would be defenceless and die soon afterward. That wasn't the scenario Millenniumon wanted for his partner.
It wasn't long before Ryo defeated every Gazimon and took their data in his digivice, just before the fight started to bore Millenniumon. The god smiled even more.
"You know exactly when I'm getting bored Ryo," he commented.
Ryo and Agumon continued their journey forward, walking closer to their destination and next enemy Etemon. Millenniumon put his hand on his chin and wondered if Ryo had enough data to make Agumon evolved to MetalGreymon. If it was the case, Ryo would be victorious, if not; he will fall under Etemon power. Etemon was at Perfect level and Greymon was an adult in the evolution chain.
Millenniumon wouldn't be worry if this reality was the same as his own, but the differences between the two realities made him uncertain of his partner fate. In this reality, maybe Ryo will fail and die. If it happened, he would be victorious against the light, but his partner won't be there to reign over the digital world by his side.
Millenniumon shook his head and said: "It's Ryo were talking about. My partner is like me, nothing can stand in his way to victory. He will defeat any obstacles," Millenniumon looked at Ryo through the hole through space: "I hope," he added.
He couldn't help but feel uneasy about uncertainty.
AC: This is the end of chapter 4.
Next chapter: Just for you.